Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
Ricarda Hammer Dept of Sociology anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory
Jelani Nelson Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory, algorithms, streaming algorithms, dimensionality reduction, randomized algorithms, machine learning, privacy
Nika Haghtalab Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, machine learning, theoretical computer science, game theory and mechanism design
Venkatesan Guruswami Dept of Mathematics Division of Computer Science (EECS) theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity
Daniel O'Neill Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory
Emily Zazulia Dept of Music medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity
Yuichiro Kamada Haas School of Business game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing
Lawrence Cohen Dept of Anthropology Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory
Shannon Jackson Dept of History of Art Dept of Rhetoric Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art
Pheng Cheah Dept of Rhetoric world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
Edgar Knobloch Dept of Physics astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems
Kannan Ramchandran Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains
Kristin Hanson Dept of English linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage
Hannah Zeavin Dept of History history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory
Roshanak Kheshti Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
Victoria Kahn Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School
Kate Heslop Dept of Scandinavian Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann Dept of History Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory
Iggy Cortez Dept of Film and Media world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory
Benjamin Hermalin Dept of Economics contract theory, corporate governance, executive compensation, economics of leadership and organization, competitive strategy, industrial organization
Cindy Cox Dept of Music composition, music analysis and theory, post-tonal music, piano, music and live electronics, text-setting
Carl Boettiger Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points
Alan Tansman Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history